0 we're getting wrapped. >> see you in 2014. >> thank you. that'll do it for us today. thank you so much for watching, everybody. >> yeah, you don't want to go anywhere. so much more news ahead in the next hour with our own colleague and friend fredricka whitfield. >> good to see you guys. thank you so much. we do indeed have a very busy day ahead. thank you so much. we'll pick up the baton from where you left. thanks so much, have a great day. >> you, too. >> you, too. 11:00 eastern hour, and "newsroom" starts right now. hello, everyone. more than 1,000 people are believed dead after a supertyphoon tears through the philippines with three and a halftimes the force of hurricane katrina. a live report from the storm zone just moments away. and here in the u.s., a verdict in the trial of a prominent doctor accused of murdering his wife. the jury's decision is next. and dr. sanjay gupta finds out the dangers of the trans fats. what they can do to your heart that has the fda so worried. first up, the tragedy that's unfolding right now in the philippines from a massive storm that could end up being the strongest to ever hit land. the red cross estimates as many as 1,200 people have been killed by supertyphoon haiyan. 1,000 of the deaths are in one coastal town, the city of tacloban. homes, buildings there are levelled from the storm's ferocious 195-mile-an-hour wi s winds. trees are blocking the roads and communication lines, of course, are down. torrential rains plus the storm surge have put entire towns under water. extraordinary images. and many of the people who died are believed to have drowned. neighbors helped neighbors evacuate to safety when they could, as the floodwaters rose even higher, as you see right there, in some instances. here are some of the incredible images of ordinary citizens carrying out courageous rescues trying to help out one another. as high as the death toll is now, it could get even worse as crews reach hard-hit areas cut off from the storm. ivan watson joins us live from manila, so, ivan, what are officials telling you about when they'll be able to reach the people in the devastated areas? >> reporter: it's very tough. there are no telecommunications right now. there's no electricity on this island of lete, the provincial capital of tacloban, we believe is one of the hardest-hit areas, and the officials are not mincing words. listen to the interior minister speaking about the scale of the damage. >> the devastation is -- it's -- i don't have the words for it. it's really horrific. it's great human tragedy. there's no power. no light. by the time the sun sets, it's dark, and, you know, you're just going to have to make your way to -- to where you can find some shelter. we're opening as many stores as we can, so that the people can have access to food. there is some looting that is going on, and we've deployed army and p&p as much as we can. and trying to secure power and water, which are the basics. >> reporter: so can you imagine that, fredricka? more than 24 hours since the supertyphoon hit, and all the interior minister can say, as the sun sets, you just have to find your way to some kind of shelter. that's because it's so difficult for the authorities to even get to this area. the main airport there is believed to have been heavily damaged. we've had teams on the ground in that town of tacloban who were staying in a hotel more than two blocks away from the coast, from the beach, and the storm surge brought the level of water in their hotel rooms to 4 1/2, nearly 5 feet. if i can just give you a sense. some people reporting seeing bodies in the streets of that town, and we still don't know what's happened in other coastal communities in that area, as well. the filipino authorities still very much trying to get a sense of the scale of the damage more than a day after the supertyphoon struck. fredricka? >> -- what people envision as shelter is very different there in the philippines, especially in the remote islands and what a lot of folks might envision here in the u.s. for people who were able to seek higher ground or seek some area of safety, because they've been displaced, what about food and clean water? because we know oftentimes with flooding, there are going to be some, you know, water-borne illnesses that could crop up. so what do people do about, you know, surviving, and what kind of sustenance might they get in that flood-ravaged area? >> reporter: well, these are some of the biggest challenges. and our own reporters on the ground are staying at a hotel where they're basically being given some bread and some pasta that people in the town, they report seeing basically going through stores to try to scavenge, some may argue loot, for supplies just to get through the next day or so. the humanitarian organizations, putting out appeals, trying to get aid to the stricken area. but, of course, connections are quite difficult right now. we're supposed to go out on a flight at dawn tomorrow with the government aviation service to get a sense of the scale of the damage to the landing strips and the airports on this stricken island of lete. now, if you can believe it, in this very region, it was hit by a deadly earthquake just last month, a nearby island of bojal, scores of people killed by a seven-plus magnitude earthquake. and if anything, we're hearing that perhaps that island was not hit as hard, because people had been forced out of their homes by the earthquake, they then were much quicker to assemble at areas, at shelters believed to have been safer. we don't know what happened in this stricken town of tacloban with a population of more than 200,000 people that was also hit by apparently a storm surge, as well. people still are trying to get information from the storm-stricken area. fredricka? >> keep us posted when you do get that. thank you so much, ivan watson in manila. to give you an idea of how big the typhoon is, this is what it looks like from space. astronaut karen nyberg tweeted this picture today from the international space station. alexandra steel is tracking the storm from the weather center. it's a monster of a storm. it's hard to believe that's considered one big system. >> 1,000 miles at one point, so giving perspective all the way from canada to florida for us. so here's another satellite perspective. but this supertyphoon is super no more, thank goodness. supertyphoon means maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour -- one-five-oh. they are down dramatically now. at one point, when it raked over the fill peeps, it had maximum sustained winds of 190, gusts to 235. so right now, it is right here in the south china sea, heading towards vietnam. it will just cruise the coast of vietnam. look at the stats and how dramatically weakened it has been. it's all relative. but maximum sustained winds down from 190 to 115, gusts to 145. so here's the timeline on it, dda nang, and moving towards hanoi, the capital. moving as a cat 3, cruise the coast. now it looks as though the winds not the biggest factor, fred. maybe the rainfall will be, as you can see by monday, 40-mile-an-hour winds. so from 40, from 190. so dramatically different, dramatically weakened, thank goodness, but still quite a player. >> wow, incredible. fragments from a european satellite are expected to fall from space. that's yet another issue. yeah, people are thinking about it, worried about, thinking about the images they've seen from movies. >> right. all right. the former worse than the latter, okay? the typhoon certainly a bigger issue than this guy. what goes up must come down, isn't that the case? the satellite up in space with european satellite agency, it's falling from space, it ran out of gas. the timeline tomorrow afternoon into monday afternoon. now, it's most likely to hit water, because, well, the planet's mostly water. so that's most likely what will happen. this is the size of it. it's the size of about a chevy, a large chevy suburban. just for the record, never have in known history has space debris likely hit anyone. but, you know, you can keep your eye out there as we head tomorrow afternoon into monday. but most likely we're all safe. it will break into pieces most likely over the ocean. hopefully, we find a fragment or two. it will be interesting. >> it could be interesting as long as it does hit all of the water. >> right. >> that encompasses earth. thank you so much, keeping an eye on both the breaking up of a soot light as well as the remnants now of the typhoon. now back to the talk of the typhoon. eight aide agencies are mobilizing, and to find out how you can help, go to cnn.com/impact. there's a lot of guidance there. back here in the u.s., an emotional outburst in court when the verdict came down after midnight in the martin macneill trial. >> -- versus martin macneill, we, the jury, having reviewed the evidence and testimony in the case find the defendant as to count one, murder, guilty. [ shouts ] as to count two -- >> outbursts in the courtroom hardly any emotion from the doctor himself. the cry coming from macneill's family, including his daughters who testified against him. macneill's team had argued that his wife, michele, died of natural causes, but in the end, jurors decided macneill drugged and drowned his wife. ted rowlands joining me now from utah. ted, clearly the jurors said, "we want to work through the night," they deliberated and they came up with this verdict in the middle of the night. explain what that was like. >> reporter: yeah, well, it was very emotional in that courtroom, fredricka, as you can imagine. you hear the outbursts there, they were weeping -- not only the sisters of michele macneill, but her daughters, and you alluded to them. this was a difficult case for the prosecution. they didn't have any direct evidence leading -- hooking the doctor up to the actual murder, but they had all of this circumstantial evidence and a lot of their case surrounded the testimony of his daughters. five daughters in all took the stand against him, and afterwards, the jury said that they thought the daughters were absolutely credible and crucial to this case. alexis summers, his daughter who is now a physician herself, was key in this -- in this case. she took the stand, and jurors said they thought she made the difference. take a listen to her reaction after the verdict. >> so happy he can't hurt anyone else. we miss our mom. we'll never get her back. but that courtroom was full of so many people who loved -- loved her. i looked around, and it was full of everyone who loved my mom. i can't believe this has finally happened. we're so -- we're so grateful. >> reporter: she really made the difference, fredricka. after michele macneill died, the case was closed, ruled an accident. the daughters pushed for investigators to open up the case, and they got the guilty verdict last night. >> how emotionally, indeed, for the family. in the meantime, for macneill, what is next? >> reporter: sentencing, looking at 15 years to life. likely he'll spend the rest of his life in prison. his sentencing date set for early january. >> all right, ted rowlands, thank you so much for bringing that to us. all right. the government wants to eliminate a substance found in some of your favorite foods. find out why the move could actually improve your health. 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